Super interesting. I am extremely curious if your dad has data on how things were different before and after the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Mass starvation and deliberate government disruption will fuck up a lot of social norms in ways I don’t want to overgeneralize from… but I don’t immediately see an in-living-memory event in Russia that would explain similar behavior around 1900.
Super interesting. I am extremely curious if your dad has data on how things were different before and after the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Mass starvation and deliberate government disruption will fuck up a lot of social norms in ways I don’t want to overgeneralize from… but I don’t immediately see an in-living-memory event in Russia that would explain similar behavior around 1900.